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Walter and Babette Sonneborn met in 1940, at a mountain resort in New York. The two became fond of each other right away, spending their days together around Long Lake, N.Y., in the Adirondacks. Their initial spark has certainly held -- the couple has been married for 67 years.
Broadcast History
NPR's Morning Edition 8/8/08
Transcript
WS: The evening that I met her she had “Babbs” written on her sweater, which is nice for me. I can’t remember names. Every evening we watched the sunset. And when I said, "Look at the shape of that sun," my wife says, ‘It’s so nice and round.’ And the sun was split in half by a cloud. So after that I insisted on her wearing her glasses.
BS: We certainly were very fond of each other. And we were together all the time. It was a perfectly wonderful summer.
WS: Let me tell you a few of the juicier things. Babbs and I would hold hands. And Babbs' friend always says, "Has he kissed you yet?" I was kind of slow. And Babbs' brother would sing, "Walter, Walter lead me to the altar." And Babbs was very embarrassed.
BS: You know, it was so different in those days.
WS: Every night we’d walk to the village and have an ice cream sundae. And this one day I stopped and held her hand. I said, "Would...
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:Time now for StoryCorps.
Today's excerpt from this traveling oral history project:
A love story ...
... that began in the mountains of upstate New York.
[TEASE]
Walter and Babs [Babbs] met in 1940.
HER family owned a resort in the Adirondacks [A-DIRRON-Daks].
And Walter took a summer job as the physician there.
[TAPE]
OUTRO:[STORYCORPS MUSIC]
Walter and Babs Sonneborn [Sohn-Born] with their niece at StoryCorps in AAA, New
York.
Their interview will be archived along with ALL StoryCorps interviews
...
... at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
Subscribe to the project's PODCAST ... at NPR-Dot-ORG.
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